Agreed on all counts. I'm no FPS aficionado but I'm loving skyrim. Tried Assassin's Creed and felt too much like "No No play like this"
Just have a 28 sword and board Orc, and a 26 dual casting Altmer evoker (taking it slow .. quite susceptible to burn out}

I have been hoping from one game to the other in the last few years. In this order i have played: World of Warcraft, Warhammer Online, Age of Conan, Fallen Earth and Rift. I will probably try the new star wars tales of the old republic once i get my hands on a copy.

And that is why i still have: Mass Effect 1, Oblivion, Dragon Origins 1, Witcher, Batman Arkahm City and Skyrim on my "to do" list...

And you are right. Noone of them compare to my RL table games. But as we grow older it gets harder and harder to to Group the old gang to play. Everybody have jobs, wifes/husbands, kids, family, night classes, ongoing colegue degrees, dancing leassons, second jobs, second degrees and on and on... The list gets endless. Its near impossible to group up 6 persons on their mid 30s every week.

Sometimes I wonder where did the time went. Flew by between my fingers when i was not looking. S#%^, sorry. I guess I am a little melancholic today.

I have been hoping from one game to the other in the last few years. In this order i have played: World of Warcraft, Warhammer Online, Age of Conan, Fallen Earth and Rift. I will probably try the new star wars tales of the old republic once i get my hands on a copy.

And that is why i still have: Mass Effect 1, Oblivion, Dragon Origins 1, Witcher, Batman Arkahm City and Skyrim on my "to do" list...

And you are right. Noone of them compare to my RL table games. But as we grow older it gets harder and harder to to Group the old gang to play. Everybody have jobs, wifes/husbands, kids, family, night classes, ongoing colegue degrees, dancing leassons, second jobs, second degrees and on and on... The list gets endless. Its near impossible to group up 6 persons on their mid 30s every week.

Sometimes I wonder where did the time went. Flew by between my fingers when i was not looking. S#%^, sorry. I guess I am a little melancholic today.

You aren't alone,i don't even remember when i have had the last RL game :(

PBP is a nice alternative,but cannot compare, more it can end all of a sudden,sometimes without the GM/players giving a warning.

I find hidden object games from Big fish games to be pretty addictive.Haunted Legends,Mystery Legends,Dark Parables,Ravenhearst...they are seriously entertaining.Especially the Beauty and the Beast--the beauty has to fight a giant spider with the voice heavy smoking transvestite with a sword while shooting its smaller swarm of offspring with a shotgun of all things in a magically medical setting.

From an out-of-character perspective, I can see why we want to leave most of the NPCs here, and go adventuring with just our party; maybe taking the cleric along because clerics are useful. Gelik especially seems completely useless; not sure about Ishirou and Aerys. Actually, since Ishirou is injured, he may be more of a burden than Gelik. He's certainly larger. Sasha seems like she might be helpful in a fight, though not much of a team player.

From an in-character perspective, it seems like we should at least find a source of water (from the map, there appears to be a stream/river that reaches the ocean at the second cove south from our current position), and maybe a generally more defensible location, before we split up. I have a hard time justifying all five of the best (or at least most trustworthy) combatants leaving the noncombatants without a guard. At the same time, no-one wants to be the player whose character sits out the actual adventure on NPC guard duty.

I see no harm in moving the camp to the most favored location. A survival check should be enought to determine that. As long as they have Jask they will have water, he is a cleric, create water is a 0 lvl spell for him.

From a character point of view I think Mugambi would be ok with leaving them behind while we explore if we leave them well taking care of. The jungle can be merciless to the inept.

Sorry I've been so unreliable this game RL just thwacked me upside the head these last couple days, and my already lackluster posting rate nose dived. Now that I have a replacement for my totalled car, and I'm adapted to my school schedule for the semester I hope to be spending a good bit more time around here if you all will give me the chance. I understand how much a dead player can hurt a game, so if you'd prefer me to just hang around until a player wanted add fills, I'd understand.

Its all good. Everyone loses a week every once in a while. Just sorry to hear that it wasn't from having too much fun.

Tell me about it, its carnival here in Brasil, i have been drinking myself to unconsciousness since last friday. My body feels like its made of jelly. I am to old fo this $%#t. Next year I am getting myself a girlfriend and I am gona go camping in some place quiet.

How many Kingmaker game are you running Bloodgargler? I see at least two of them on these boards.And what the difference with the one called "Stolen Kingmaker"?
I have a (yes i know, i only play female PC) female half-elf sorcerer infernal bloodline i built for the kingmaker game i was in last year.We had just started book two (she is level 4) when the GM had to drop the game :(

Four .. I'm running 2 on these boards and 2 face to face - one stalled at book 4. Second one on boards is one I took over when GM disappeared, that's why I called it stolen ... (stolen lands .. stolen kingmaker ..)
It is by far my favorite .. that is main reason I thought I'd try this path, because it is fairly sandbox. I'm looking forward to using all y'all as my test subjects to see what 3PP I can supplement with and other possible directions if any.

Yea, kingmaker is nice. I was playing in 2 kingmaker games irl also. One i played a bard and the other i picked up GMing on book 2 when the original GM bailed. Both groups are on hiatus now. I finished GMing book 2 and my bard got to lvl 6 and the begining of book 3.

Thats why i havent applied for any km games on this boards. I rather try the APs that i have not done yet. But if i see a km game on book 3 look for players i would apply lol.

I'm going to DM Carrion Crown on these boards,the first books is pretty non linear (i admit i still haven't got what sandbox means).Haven't read the other books yet,have already enough to do to begin the first.